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Budd/Deschutes Environmental Stewardship Coalition signing ceremony

December 1st, 2011 by eoconnell · Comments Off

Here is a video featuring the speakers at the Budd/Deschutes Environmental Stewardship Coalition signing ceremony earlier this week.

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Budd/Deschutes Environmental Stewardship Coalition Update

November 15th, 2011 by jkonovsky · Comments Off

UPDATE:  Lacey City Council unanimously passed a resolution to sign the MOU last night.  That means all have agreed and the signing ceremony on Nov. 29th is on. The Olympia City Council voted unanimously to approve signing the MOU forming the Budd/Deschutes Environmental Stewardship Coalition tonight.  The City of Yelm and the Squaxin Island Tribal [...]

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Tags: habitat · Salmon · water mitigation · Water Quality

King 5 on the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition

November 15th, 2011 by jkonovsky · Comments Off

King 5: Farm deal clears Olympia water jam

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New Deschutes Watershed Coalition Formed

November 14th, 2011 by jkonovsky · Comments Off

  On-the-ground habitat restoration projects will be the focus of a new coalition to jumpstart salmon productivity in the Deschutes River watershed.  The Squaxin Island Tribe and the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm are establishing the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition. “The Deschutes coalition will be an ongoing alliance to fund and conduct on-the-ground [...]

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Tags: habitat · Salmon · water mitigation

Ancient Clam Gardens and Deepwater Sand Lance Habitat

November 7th, 2011 by esparkman · Comments Off

Ancient clam gardens and deepwater sand lance habitats are just two of the many varied topics that were interesting at the biennial Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference held in Vancouver British Columbia this October.   Researchers fromSimonFraserUniversitylooked at the effectiveness of ancient shellfish gardens created onQuadraIslandinBritish Columbia.  In these gardens, first nations’ peoples cleared rocks and small [...]

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Squaxin Island Tribe, Capitol Land Trust, LOTT work together to protect habitat

October 13th, 2011 by eoconnell · Comments Off

The Squaxin Island Tribe and the Capitol Land Trust are hoping to purchase and protect an important piece of forestland between Henderson and Budd inlets as part of a joint effort to restore and protect habitat between the two south Sound inlets. “In total, we would protect almost 60 acres,” said John Konovsky, resource protection [...]

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Conservation Futures funds should be used for conservation, not urban parks

August 9th, 2011 by jdickison · Comments Off

We have learned that the Thurston County Commission intends to support using Thurston Conservation Futures money to support “preserving” land for an urban park in downtown Olympia. This appears to fail the test of the intended use for this funding source and does nothing for conservation. If this is how money will be doled out, [...]

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DNR partners with Department of Ecology, Squaxin Tribe and South Sound Salmon Enhancement group to restore Puget Sound

July 8th, 2011 by Scott Steltzner · Comments Off

From the DNR blog Ear to the Ground: http://washingtondnr.wordpress.com/ DNR and its partners have removed 3,150 square feet of overwater docking structure — the last remaining overwater structure on Squaxin Island. Removed were 48 creosote treated wood pilings and 84.6 tons of creosote treated wood. The dock, which provided tribal members access to an old [...]

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Squaxin Island Tribe rolls out new landscape analysis of Budd Inlet

October 8th, 2010 by jdickison · Comments Off

Recently we’ve been presenting a landscape analysis to small groups in the area. Hopefully, our analysis will help kick-start a conversation about how to best approach restoring Budd Inlet. Here is a press release about the project from the NWIFC: The Squaxin Island Tribe has taken more than 20 years of studies and developed a [...]

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Video of beach seine research demonstration at Priest Point Park

July 22nd, 2010 by eoconnell · Comments Off

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Tags: habitat · Salmon